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91 jReesacje * Clunker! 


ORGANIZATIONS 

OFTEN HINDER THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 
GREATEST DISCOVERIES 


A FAIR EXAMPLE HOW THE MOST WONDERFUL AND 
EVEN BENEFICIAL DISCOVERIES ARE SUPPRESSED, 
BECAUSE THE SCIENTIST DOES NOT BELONG 
TO THAT CASTE AND BELIEVES IN 
ABSOLUTE FREEDOM. 



{A million men in a canyon can’t see as far as a single man 
on the heights .—With apologies to Herbert Kaufman.) 

By LOUIS DECHMANN 

Biologist 


Copyrighted 
Seattle, Wn., U. S. A. 
1918 




Courteous Reader: 

I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure 
as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned 
authors. This pleasure I have seldom enjoyed, for 
though I have been, if I may say it without vanity, an 
eminent author of Almanac annually now a full quarter of a 
century, my brother authors in the same way, for what reason 
I know not, have ever been very sparing in their applauses, and 
no other author has taken the least notice of me, so that, did 
not my writings produce me some solid pudding, the great de¬ 
ficiency of praise would have quite discouraged me. 

I concluded at length that the people were the best judges 
of my merit, for they buy my works, and, besides, in my rambles, 
where I am not personally known, I have frequently heard one 
or other of my adages repeated with, as Poor Richard says, 
“At the end on’t;” this gave me some satisfaction, as it showed 
not only that my instructions were regarded, but discovered, 
likewise some respect for my authority; and I own that to en¬ 
courage the practice of remembering and repeating those wise 
Sentences, I have sometimes quoted myself with great gravity. 


Benjamin Franklin. 

(From the American Bible by Alice Hubbard.) 


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& jtflessage to tf)e Clunker! 

ORGANIZATIONS OFTEN HINDER THE DEVELOP¬ 
MENT OF THE GREATEST DISCOVERIES 


INTRODUCTION. 

“There was a man, once upon a day, who lived in East 
Aurora, and kept a store. He sold everything from cough 
syrup to blue ribbon; and some of the things he sold on time 
to philosophers who sat on nail kegs every evening, and settled 
the coal strike. 

“And in due course of time the store-keeper compromised 
with his creditors, at twenty-nine cents on the dollar. 

“Some say the man went busted a-purpose to quit business 
and get out of East Aurora. And he himself generally allowed 
the opinion to gain ground in later years that he had planned 
his life, from start to finish, thus proving the supremacy of the 
will. 

“Yet others there be, and men of worth and social standing 
in the village—known for miles up the creek as persons of prob¬ 
ity—who claim that it was too much confidence in the Genus 
Smart-Setter, and trotting horses at the County Fairs, that made 
it possible for our friend to avail himself of the Bankruptcy 
Act. Still others, too inert to follow the winding ways of a 
strange career and give reasons, dispose of the matter by saying, 
‘Providence V —rolling their eyes upward, then walking out, 
leaving the wordy contestants humiliated and undone. 

“It will be seen that I am interested in this chapter of An¬ 
cient History,—and in truth I myself occasionally ornament the 
nail kegs. I claim that it was neither Providence nor astute 


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planning that mapped this man’s course, but Providence, Plan¬ 
ning and Luck; and I silence the adversary, for the time, by 
citing these facts; 

“Very shortly after Providence and the sheriff of Erie 
County—whose name, by the way, was Grover Cleveland—had 
disposed of the East Aurora grocery, our friend met a man in 
Buffalo who had a wonderful secret, a sweeping scar on his 
chin, and nothing else worth mentioning. 

“This man secured his assets in Germany; he got them while 
attending the University of Jena. 

“The secret was gotten by an understanding with a professor; 
the scar was received through a misunderstanding with a stu¬ 
dent. 

“The secret was a plan by which you could make glucose 
from corn. 

“In Germany it was only a laboratory experiment, because 
there was no corn in Europe to speak of. 

“Here we had corn to burn, since in that very year the 
farmers of Iowa were using corn for fuel. 

“Glucose is the active saccharine principle in maize, but it 
does not become active until the corn is treated chemically in a 
certain way, just as honey is not honey until a bee puts it through 
his Maeterlinck laboratory. 

“Glucose is a food; it can be used for all purposes where 
sugar is used, in degree, at least. And every living person on 
earth uses sugar as food every day! Now, our ex-grocer knew 
all about Hambletonian Ten and Dexter; but dextrine, dextrose 
and glucose were out of his class. Yet, he realized that if sugar 
could be made from corn, there was a fortune in it for some¬ 
body. 

“Opportunity, we are told, knocks once at each man’s door. 
Our David Harum was forty, past, and he had often thought 
Opportunity was tapping, but when he opened wide the door, 
darkness there, and nothing more! Opportunity had knocked, 
but was too timid to stay. This time, he heard the knock, and 
when he opened the door, Opportunity made a rush for him, 
grabbed him by the collar—catch-as-catch-can—in a grip he 
could not shake off. 


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“Mr. Harum examined as best he could the glucose the Ger¬ 
man student had made, and then he watched the whole experi¬ 
ment worked out over again. What the particular ingredients 
were, was still a secret. The man would not sell out; he wanted 
to organize a manufactory and take a certain per cent, of the 
profits. David had a thousand dollars, saved out of the wreck 
at East Aurora; but he knew if he could show certain men that 
the scheme was genuine, he could be able to raise more. 

“Five thousand dollars was secured. But the man who ad¬ 
vanced the four thousand dollars demanded an insurance policy 
on the life of the German chemist. This appealed to our David 
Harum as an excellent plan; if the man who held the secret 
should die, all would be lost save honor. 

“They insured the life of the chemist for twenty thousand 
dollars. 

“In a month after he was killed in a railroad wreck on a 
Sunday-school excursion. And the moral is—but never mind 
that now. 

“The twenty thousand dollars insurance was paid to David 
Harum. He immediately repaid his friends their four thousand 
dollars, and reserved for himself, very properly, the sixteen 
thousand dollars to cover expenses. 

“He then started for Jena. Arriving there, he found that 
the making of glucose was no special secret, and to manufacture 
it on a large scale was simply a matter of evolving the right kind 
of system and a plant. 

“He hired a young German chemist, who had just graduated, 
for a matter of say a thousand dollars a year and expenses, and 
the two started back for America. 

“From this arose the Glucose Industry in the United States. 
In ten years time twelve million dollars were invested in the 
business; in 1903, over a hundred million dollars were invested. 
Our East Aurora hero sold out his interests in 1890, for some 
such bagatelle as thirteen million dollars. The German student 
is back at Jena taking a post-graduate course in chemistry—the 
first one is still dead.” 

Thus Elbert Hubbard, in one of his “Little Journeys,” in 
which 172 great men and women are biographically described 


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in the author’s inimitable style. It would be difficult to improve 
upon that. 

To enter into details regarding these great men and women 
would be too great a task, but it would certainly be most benefi¬ 
cial to all intelligent men and women to become acquainted with 
the lives and struggles of the greatest geniuses, now mostly for¬ 
gotten. I might mention a great many more who had to eke 
out a most niggardly existence and overcome the severest preju¬ 
dice, and had it not been for some kind guardian angel, in the 
form of a generous-hearted philanthropist, most of the greatest 
discoveries would never have been revealed to us. Dozens of 
men, such as Fraunhofer, Geisler, Ruhmkorff, Reiss, Stoehrer, 
Zeiss, Wagner, Ohm, etc., are hardly known to the public, yet 
they discovered some of the most important laws and secrets 
of nature, especially in the science of physics. Where would 
we be now without their teachings? This is the time when the 
individual thinker should have the opportunity to be heard. 

One of the most significant discoveries in electricity is the 
so-called Wagner hammer. Yet Wagner was not a member of 
an organization, he was not even a professor,—merely an ordin¬ 
ary mechanic and bookkeeper, who studied the science of elec¬ 
tricity for love of the subject, and the desire for knowledge. 
The same may be said of Stoehrer, a common mechanic, who 
came in contact with professional and scientific men of renown, 
for whom he made models for scientific apparatuses. Ruhm¬ 
korff and Geisler were also ordinary mechanics. Reiss, a pri¬ 
vate schoolteacher, invented the long distance telephone without 
even having a large laboratory at his disposal. But these things 
are not taught in our schools. We know what we owe to the 
great Siemens and his mechanic, Halske. Siemens did not hesi¬ 
tate to admit the great assistance he received from Halske. The 
world renowned works of Zeiss had their beginning in the efforts 
of a common mechanic. The man who began the study and gave 
to the world the wonderful explanation of spectral analysis, 
who made it possible for astronomers to study the heavens, the 
sun and the firmament, was an apprentice in a glass factory, a 
self-taught man—Joseph Fraunhofer. 


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Dr. George Biedenkapp in a recent article on “The Social Im¬ 
portance of the Biographies of Inventors and Discoverers/’ said, 
among other things: 

“If we were to take into consideration the biographies of in¬ 
ventors and discoverers regardless of country, a long list of illus¬ 
trations might be mentioned. For powerful industries and num¬ 
berless objects of usefulness and luxury we are indebted to men 
who have lived in the poorest circumstances for many years. 
This fact cannot be impressed too strongly upon the youth of 
two classes of society represented in the public schools—the rich 
and those who are in power. No one should be placed in au¬ 
thority by the government unless he is well versed in these mat¬ 
ters. Knowledge is not identical with action and feeling, but 
it forms the starting-point. 

“The biographies of inventors and discoverers, however, 
teach more than the mere fact of the quantity of valuable in¬ 
tellectual power of the extent of fundamental treasures of the 
mind that may be present waiting to be elevated. The question 
is one of the blessing of private initiative as compared with the 
idleness of the official or organized world. 

“Organization reigns supreme today, and quite correctly so. 
But organizations also have their disadvantages. Their united 
strength is often used to suppress what is new and full of promise. 
The scientific organizations present innumerable illustrations. It 
was with great difficulty that the mathematical and scientific 
branches gained a place in Universities besides the theologists 
and philologists. It required much effort to gain equal recogni¬ 
tion for the study of Sanscrit and the Germanic subjects beside 
the older University branches. 

“Had it depended on the organization of hammer-smiths in 
Glasgow, James Watt, one of the most powerful inventors, could 
not even have located there a tradesman; the organization work¬ 
ed in opposition to the man who was of greater value than all of 
the organizations taken together. 

“When Riquet built the famous canal from the Mediterranean 
Sea to the Atlantic during the reign of Louis XIV of France, 
all the official engineers were antagonistic towards him, which 


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was also true of Stephenson when he constructed the Manchester- 
Liverpool Railroad. 

“It would be an almost endless task to cite all the instances 
where unjust treatment was accorded to discoverers and in¬ 
ventors by high officials who were designated with various kinds 
of scientific titles and wished to display their official importance. 
Let it suffice to enumerate a few of the most striking examples: 
A scholar occupying a high official position, whose special duty 
it was to give as much publicity as possible to the latest dis¬ 
coveries and inventions in a periodical devoted to physics and 
chemistry, rejected two of the most brilliant contributions of the 
19th century because they were not offered by professional col¬ 
leagues, but by a physician and a private teacher respectively. 
One of these contributions covered the law of the preservation 
of force, which was destined to become so significant to the art 
of engineering and physics. The other consisted of the tele¬ 
phone, which might have been employed to the disadvantage of 
the enemy in the war of 1870-71, had it not been for the official 
stupidity above mentioned. 



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“To him for whom great Nature revealeth not her art, 

A thousand Athens and a thousand Romes could not the truth 
impart” 


Organization is all right, but genius is better, and hundreds 
of public and private organizations cannot accomplish as much 
as the intellect of one genius. They must understand and sup¬ 
port each other. Talent, which is the foundation of the organi¬ 
zation, must learn to understand genius; he must not hold him¬ 
self aloof from him, but must try to get into closer contact with 
him and at the proper time subordinate himself to him. Talent 
must find genius. That simply means that he must give free 
rein to genius; he must give the right of way to genius no mat¬ 
ter to what class he belongs, no matter if he is a member of a 
certain school or caste. Talent must give up his egoistic de¬ 
sires to rule and command genius; he must give genius abso¬ 
lute freedom. In times like these, when it is necessary that all 
good talents work in harmony with genius, the spirit of the 
times must be the dominating factor, and all feelings of personal 
gain must be suppressed for the welfare of all mankind. 

There is a common tendency to cling to old ways and methods. 
Every innovation has to fight for its life, and every good thing 
has been condemned in its day and generation. 

Error once set in motion continues indefinitely unless blocked 
by a stronger force; and old ways will always remain unless 
some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it. 

(t Nihil mihi antiquius est,” said Cicero. And thus he spoke 
his love for the past. In China “my elder brother” and “How 
old you look” are forms of greeting. Search yourself, delve deep 
within you, and you will find that you too, cling to the past. To 
break that belief you have held so long is no light task. It is 
man's nature so to be. Hence struggle for that which is new. 
Columbus found it useless to urge his idea of the rotundity of 


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the earth unless he could prove it to be old. Filmer in his 
Pat riarcha sought to ground the authority of Charles II 
on the authority granted by Jehovah to the patriarchs of the Old 
Testament. Even in our own American Society of progress 
and enlightenment our watchwords are significant of the forces 
we must conjure up to break away from “the old.” Neverthe¬ 
less changes will come about. We will advance. Feeling about 
the gods is long lived, but comparitive religion is more and more 
the order of the day. The Igorrote chief who but a few years 
back complained that the women would not marry men who did 
not take heads had laid his crease away. 

Eight years ago I had the honor to present an important 
scientific discovery, a new biologic and eugenic law, to Professor 
Charles B. Davenport, Chief of the Experimental Evolution 
Bureau of the Carnegie Institution. The response of Professor 
Davenport was not then very receptive; in fact, my new law 
was not received as an honored guest. Yet today Professor 
Charles B. Davenport addresses the National Academy of 
Sciences at Washington, D. C., delivering to the world, after 
eight years of negative attitude scientific statements identical 
with those I presented to him in January, 1910. Professor 
Davenport told the National Academy of Sciences in 1918 noth¬ 
ing more nor less than the science embodied in the “Dechmann 
Law of the Determination of Sex at Will,” and as a natural 
consequence of this law, the law of the “Cross-Transmission of 
Charasteristics.” In order to duly receive priority rights and 
acknowledgment I had this law copyrighted December 18, 1909. 
It briefly presents that it is a Law of Nature that “The victory 
in the generation of sex, opposite to itself goes to that plasm 
which was weaker at the moment of conception forced through 
the law of ‘Preservation of Kind’—supported by the ‘latent 
Reserve-Energy’ which is inherent in every organism—From 
this law the rule as to generation of sex at will is devolved. 
Further, as to the law of Cross-Transmission of Characteristics, 
it is presented that it is a Law of Nature that the mother is rep¬ 
resented in the male offspring and the father in the female, the 
female child thus following the father and the father’s mother, 
and so forth back into time, and the male child following the 


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mother and she her father, and so forth. Embodied in this law 
as a seeming exception to the Law of Cross-Transmission, I 
stated that the “law of Dominant” overrides the action of “Latent 
Reserve Energy,” and is a provision of nature for the preserva¬ 
tion of the “Dominant,” which is the most important quality in 
nature. A further explanation of this will be found in my book 
“Procreation” (subtitle “Within the Bud”) pages 220 to 238. 
My examination of Gabon’s theory, pages 300 to 301, should be 
of great interest to every student of eugenics. 

The copyright title is as follows, bearing the Seal of the Li¬ 
brarian of Congress, Copyright office, and being a “Certificate 
of Copyright Registration” giving rights for twenty-eight years 
after publication: 

“Louis Dechmann, 

Seattle, Wash. 

Book entitled “The Law of the Generation of Sexes at Will, 
by Louis Dechmann.” Date of Publication, December 18, 1909. 
Affidavit received January 15, 1910. Copies received, January 
15, 1910. Entry Class A X—XXC, No. 255688. 

(Signed) Thorvald Solberg, 

Register of Copyright.” 



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Galileo’s detection of Venus’ phases with his telescope gave 
the Ptolemaic system its coup de grace. Foucalt’s pendulum 
made visible the earth’s rotation. Torricelli’s experiment of 
balancing thirty-two feet of water against thirty inches of mer¬ 
cury ends “Nature abhors a vacuum.” Newton’s falling apple 
led to his discovery of the law of gravitation and changed the 
world of science. The Dechmann Laws of Determination of the 
Sex at Will and of the Cross-Transmission of Characteristics 
stand as a first formulation of a biological principle the eugenic 
importance of which transcends all computation. Thousands 
saw the apple fall, yet only one interpreted its motion into a pro¬ 
found Law of Nature. As since time immemorial it had been 
observed that (with puzzling variations) sons partook of the 
characteristics of the mother, and daughters of the father, yet it 
remained for a twentieth-century inspiration to intepret the phe¬ 
nomena into profound law. 

In science every important statement must be verifiable. This 
it is that which distinguishes the fabric of modern science from 
all previous fabrics, for example, the S u m m a of Thomas 
Aquinas. Science is credible, not because the intellectual power 
of its builders surpasses that of the Alexandrian philosophers, 
of the mediaeval Schoolmen, but because of its method. Each 
of its great strides dates from some happy experiment or ob¬ 
servation. When in my poultry yards as far back as 1903, I saw 
all the male chicks of a mating of Polish male and Brahma 
females grow up like Brahmas, and saw that the females had 
topknots on their heads, I was sure that behind the phenomenon 
was nature laws. When it became common poultry-breeding 
practice to list in fancy stock catalogues “cockerel matings” and 
“pullet matings,” when stock breeding became general on a sim¬ 
ilar rule, then I felt that the phenomena displayed should be 
defined in a comprehensive, unquestionable law. As I paced my 
study I beheld the human race. I saw it going forward, breed¬ 
ing in ignorance. I saw tubercular male and tubercular female 
producing tubercular child. I saw scrofulous blood mated with 
scrofulous blood. I saw humanity’s matings all made by a blind 
chance and chaos and disintegration, destruction, ahead. No, 
not quite this! For it is true there is a certain instinctive phychic 

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mating, a pairing by some subtle vibration; but with no law to 
be followed that would intelligently cry: 

“Halt! This is destruction!” Or that would hail: 

“Come! This is the certain way to race perfection!” 

What grand constructive program could be mapped out for 
mankind with such a law? The tubercular being need not then 
despair of regeneration, for, knowing a Law of Cross-Transmis¬ 
sion and Determination of Sex at Will the weakly father would 
expect strong sons from the healthy mother, from the healthy 
mate chosen under that Law, and until in time his weak strain 
of blood would be reconstructed, regenerated. His then created 
daughters could expect strong sons with healthy mates also 
chosen under that Law. 

Or, to make it still plainer, let us suppose that, apart from the 
mere caprice of desire, there is a practical purpose to be gained 
by having boys and girls at will. Suppose that the wife has the 
taint of tuberculosis in her family. Suppose that the husband, 
on the contrary, is a robust man, with robust lineage. The wife 
is undergoing, we will say, the hygienic process of regenera¬ 
tion by proper nutrition,—as explained later on,—proper 
breathing and other proper care. Now then, the couple are just 
married. They want children. But will the children be tuber¬ 
cular, will they have taint? Not if we follow the Dechmann law 
of the Determination of Sex in a scientific manner. The first 
offspring should be a female, and will, by the law of Cross- 
Transmission of Sex, normally speaking, have.the health of the 
father. So a female is born, and it is like its father. 

A few years have passed now, but we still wait a year or 
two. The mother, meanwhile, is regenerating, and, not 
only that, but, by the law of consanguinity, as a wife, she is al¬ 
ready absorbing some of the quality of the husband’s health. 

At length, the vital question arises: What shall the second 
child be,—a girl or a boy? A girl, certainly, for we must yet 
give the mother a chance to regenerate. And so the 
process gradually goes on. The mother looks well, she is still 
regenerating. She does not look like the mother of old; 
for, as I have told you, nature is not unjust; she gives humanity 
a chance to regenerate, and some of the hereditary traits 


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are not impossible to overcome. A third child is desired. Again 
the question arises: Shall this be a boy or a girl ? Let us pre¬ 
sume a boy, for now years have elapsed, the danger zone, by 
careful estimate, is safely passed. And so a boy is born, and he 
looks well and thrives. 

Would it not be a wonderful thing if this could be carried 
out in all cases ? 

What I have told you is a tableau from actual, practical life. 

This, in fact, is the course followed by stock breeders today— 
they determine the sex at will, and they determine the health at 
will! The happy vision I beheld of the human architecture to be 
built upon a sound law of Cross-Transmission, the great human 
potentiality of it, almost overcame me. 

How then, after I had confided my discovery eight years ago 
to Professor Davenport, the man at the apex of the acedemic 
eugenic school in America, could I contemplate the receipt of a 
letter from him that ‘we know nothing about this, therefore we 
cannot go into details ?” 

This reminds me of some logic uttered by Professor Du Bois 
Raymond amidst the hearty applause of the scholars and students 
years ago; he said: 

“1. This and that we do not know. Nor will we ever gain 
a knowledge of it—‘Ignorabimus.’ 

“2. This is the point of view that science maintains at the 
present time. 

“3. Whatever does not agree with this lack of knowledge 
on our part is not scientific/’ 

Grant the first statement and the following must be correct. 

I felt that Professor Davenport’s letter was no fit reply. But 
I have my reply today, truly “fit” and complete, years later, when, 
in statements succinct and clear, he examples facts which are the 
very essence of the phenomena upon which the Dechmann Law 
is based. To the National Academy of Sciences Professor 
Davenport showed records of evidence of maternal transmission 
to the son. He explained that “fighting efficiency is more apt 
to be an inheritance from the maternal side rather than the 
paternal.” Recent experimental research, he stated, to put it in 
form easily understood, “Shows that the daughter of a pirate 


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who had married a peace-loving Quaker is quite likely to have 
a boy of a bloodthirsty instinct, qualities which by no possibility 
could have been inherited from his Quaker father/’ 

Knowing the Dechmann Law, would not an intelligent, high- 
minded man halt before the scientific problem of a partner in 
life? Would a Quaker willingly, knowingly, produce highway¬ 
men in his family? Yet the Dechmann Law lifts the finger of 
warning and points the finger of instruction. 

The Eugenics Record office now under Professor Davenport, 
has led to the suggestion that there is a more scientific method 
in the selection of men for commissions in the army and navy, 
and the results tabulated indicate that the mother endows the 
son with the characteristics required. Yes, there is. There is the 
scientific method: Selection under the “Dechmann Law of De¬ 
termination of the Sex at Will” and of the “Cross-Transmis¬ 
sion of Characteristics.” 

It has remained for Professor Charles B. Davenport, after 
eight years of aloofness, to display the evidence verifying the 
science of the Dechmann Law. While he exhibited numerous 
examples of transmission of characteristics from mother to son, 
he did not adopt the term in my law “Cross-Transmission.” Does 
he yet understand? Is he not yet prepared to accept this inter¬ 
pretation, and to confess that this is not all chance, but is true 
Nature Law? He displays only a description of certain find¬ 
ings. He does not interpret them into law, nor acknowledge my 
discovery of fifteen years ago. The National Academy of 
Sciences was “surprised” by the statements of Professor Daven¬ 
port. What would their astonishment be at the full and proper 
presentation of the “Dechmann Law.” 

I must again commend my law to Professor Davenport’s 
notice, and would append the motto: 

“Opinionum enim commenta delet dies', naturae judicia con - 
firmat. n (Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it con¬ 
firms decisions founded on reality.”) Cicero. 

Again I commend to The American Association for the Ad¬ 
vancement of Science that the acceptance of the Dechmann Law 
of Cross-Transmission of Characteristics and Determination of 
the Sex at Will, its publication and recommendation, for to ex- 


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periment therewith would be the very foundation of practical 
human regeneration. It is biology transcribed in terms of an¬ 
other of humanity’s arts, the grandest and highest, the art of 

eugenic regeneration and salvation. 


“It is delightful to transport 

Oneself into the spirit of the past, 

To see in times before us, how a wise man thought , 

And what a glorious height we have achieved at last 

(After Goethe). 


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VIS INERTIAE. 

( Obstruction .) 

“The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate prog- 
ress, but that they love inertia. Even as great a man as John 
Ruskin (English philosopher and art critic) foresaw that the 
railroads would ruin England by driving the stages out of busi¬ 
ness, killing the demand for horses, and thus ruining the farmer. 

“Thomas Jefferson (third President of the United States) 
tells us, in his autobiography, a story of a neighbor of his who 
was “agin” the public schools, because *when every one could 
read and write, no one would work.* 

“And the argument seems to be this : If you think a thing is 
right, never mind what the many say, stick to it. 

“Work for it, live for it, die for it—this way immortality 
lies.” Hubbard. 


H OWEVER, today as never before in the history of the 
race, a spirit of general uneasiness and anxiety is 
abroad—a widespread public movement in quest of 
efficiency. 

With the progress of education and intelligence comes a 
consciousness of something amiss a failure to secure through the 
old accustomed channels the relief from sickness that men need. 
There is a feeling—a growing conviction in their inner con¬ 
sciousness that relief and satisfaction are to be had somewhere; 
but the accepted science of the day—the orthodox organization 
—has repeatedly buoyed up their hopes with bright visions of 
quick salvation only to fling them back on disappointment into 
deeper abysses of despair. The world is weary of subsidized 
futilities and what it regards as the palpable failure of real 
progress. 

What the world is sedulously seeking now is something origin¬ 
al, the true progressive thought of our day, something that soars 
above the heads of tutored mediocrity, with great ideas and cour¬ 
age to uphold them, if need be in the face of conflicting theories 
of the schools, or in spite, may be, of their anathema and threats 
of swift annihilation. 

Since, as we learn from “Holy Writ:”—“Wisdom is justified 
of all her children,” why should the gates of science be closed 
in the face of all but those approved according to the old-school 
standards and judged by pedants of the old-world form-standards, 
the wisdom and knowledge whereof is past the zenith of its day 
and westering towards the point at which it, too, will shortly 
“vanish away?” 

The phases of the problem which really do interest us are— 
firstly, the fact of this public awakening from hopeless apathy;— 
secondly, the rejection of “orthodox” expedients and the wide 
and impetuous search for an alternative; and, thirdly, the be- 


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lated discovery that science and religion are one, 
and being one, they must be Free. Free from control of 
ignorance and prejudice,— free from creeds and dogmas,— 
free from hypocrisy and cant, from cryptic methods and con¬ 
ventional barriers raised against the in-flow of intelligence and 
honesty. 

With Goethe I cry: 

“Free will I be—aye free in thought and line, 

Nor shall the world’s restraint my course confine 

“A theory that is afraid of investigation is undeserving of a 
place in the human mind.” 

When we think of the appalling loss of time and opportunity 
—with their toll of suffering and human life—sacrificed to the 
useless, but spectacular suppression of the symptoms and mani¬ 
festations of disease, which might, with vast advantage, have 
been aimed at the fundamental constitutional causes of the same 
—is there, I ask you, any room for wonderment if the popular 
patience is at last exhausted and the hour of retribution is at 
hand? 

This undertaking and my aims are affected only indirectly 
by these controversial matters as such.—The aims of my New 
School of Science are centered upon an infinitely grander, higher 
plant; its objective is, broadly, the Regeneration of the race, 
through the teachings of Biology, Eugenics and their laws, with 
the aid of physiological chemistry, up to now neglected and sup¬ 
pressed by orthodox organizations;—the eventual physical sal¬ 
vation of the race as a whole is the goal towards which we would 
win;—the physical salvation of the individual from constitu¬ 
tional defects is but a necessary detail of the cause, though never¬ 
theless a problem which has been brought to a careful and final 
demonstration by the light of deep and exhaustive scientific re¬ 
search and practice of nature’s fundamental laws. 


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NOTE. 


This article is an extract from my work “Regenera¬ 
tion” (Dare to be Healthy) Series II, which explains the 
style adopted in the following pages. Series I is my work 
“Procreation” (Within the Bud). Both works are written 
in a style of my own, different from all other scientific 
works. For instance, I let one of my students, whom I 
named Concepcione, dictate from her Diary in which she 
refers to me as the “Master.” Under “Eugenika” the 
reader will grasp the idea of the place where these works 
were written. In reality the name is “Qui si Sana,” a health 
resort on Lake Crescent, Washington. Eugenika was 
adopted by me as the name for the “Goddess of a better 
Race.” 


Dr. L. Dechmann. 


FIRST CHAPTER. 

“Auspicium Melioris Aevi.” 

(The Augury of an Happier Age.) 

“Fiat justitia, mat coelum.” 

(Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.) 



SELF-CRITICISM 

from 

CONCEPCIONE’S DIARY. 


“He was a Greek who first dared raise his eyes , 
And launch his threatening challenge to the skies ; 
Nor could the Gods deter, nor thunder's roar, 

Nor ruthless lightning the aspirant awe; 

Rather, to his keen mind, fresh impulse lent 
Discovered mysteries to supplement, 

So that he fain would burst the hindering door, 
And wrest from Nature Truth's sublimest lore ” 
(Translation from the Latin of Lucretius (M. B.) 


Y well beloved diary again,—the place Eugenika,— 
m I ■ the time of year, the spring,—a glad environment 
J M ^ of nature’s wonder-work—the spirit of new life in 
all the myriad material things that nature’s lavish 
hand has richly spread throughout these mountain solitudes. 

It seems but yesterday since last we said, “Auf Wiedersehen” 
—until we meet again—to all the blithsome company assembled 
here last year, and now again “The Master’s “hearty welcome is 
ringing in my ears—already “The Mother’s sweet solicitude sur¬ 
rounds me with its constant care. It feels like coming home 
again. 

Tired but elated, after a much travelled day, I rest in com¬ 
fort in an old accustomed place—the Great Hall of Eugenika— 
its trophies, rustic beams and frescoes flooded, as the twilight 
falls, with wealth of colour and the radiant glow of burning logs 
which roar and crackle in the great wide hearth, shedding a rich 
pine-scented warmth congenial at this sunset hour, for the out¬ 
side air is chill, despite the gallant efforts of the orb to chase 


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from out these fastnesses dull winter’s laggard loiterings. The 
last faint glow is glinted on rough cedar rafters through the 
gable’s western oriel of parti-coloured panes and the lights blend 
softly into one fragrant atmosphere of rest. 

A short while later, I have dined once more in the inviting, 
sumptuous yet simple style peculiar to Eugenika. I am the first 
and sole arrival yet, out of the many who are due, and thus the 
banquet was in miniature and the guests were few who discussed 
the dainties of scientific choice prepared by a master of the 
culinary art. The conversation, led by my genial host, ranged 
pleasantly twixt grave and gay, recalling many a pleasantry of 
former times, mingled with scientific incidents and forecasts of 
the serious work to come. 

And suddenly the consciousness of opportunity assailed me— 
the thought that now, in the lone leisured comfort of this after- 
dinner time, the psychological moment had arrived to importune 
the Master for some brief personal epitome to suit the purpose 
of my diary,—some statement of the aims and ambitions that 
have led and dominated the labours of his life of scientific energy, 
his activities in the present and the past. 

The task was one to be approached with all the diffidence at 
my command. But readily the Master responded to the call,— 
for no legitimate appeal for knowledge is made to him in vain, 
—and with brief pause for thought he thereupon defined for me 
in brief,the trend of his mind’s great industry. 

Relapsed into a pensive pose of contemplative power and 
with a look of exaltation in his eyes, the Master’s accents fell 
in softer strain: 

“The words of a great thinker may best convey the spirit of 
my life’s objective, which many term a dream Utopian;—a thing 
so simple yet so strenuous,—no fable yet so far. No more a 
dream—no less,—than man is the rightful fulness of his being, 
in perfect form regenerate, or, in a word, Salvation of the race. 

“Robert Ingersoll says: 

“‘Reason, Observation and Experience—the Holy Trinity of 
Science—have taught us that happiness is the only good ; that 
the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make 
others so. This is enough for us* 


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“What ‘happiness’ can men know when disease is at the door, 
ready to call or jeopardize the lives they hold most dear?—Must 
not this, then, be the direction from which ‘salvation’ comes?— 
Is not such the example of the Christ, through whom the voice 
of nature speaks to us, now as in the olden time? 

“Let me still quote the same philosopher:— 

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, 
rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith ! 9 

“This, therefore, is the cynosure towards which my ardent 
gaze is turned,—the pole-star by which my course is shaped, the 
central object of a faith sure-founded and legitimate. 

“Consistently with this design, my present object is to demon¬ 
strate to you, my students,—and through you, eventually, to the 
outside world, the possibility of the prevention and healing of 
constitutional disease by methods dictated by biological laws, 
supplemented by the matured experience of the great masters 
and thinkers of the day and days gone by, attested as it is by 
my own research prosecuted throughout a period of many years 
devoted to the closest personal observation and experiment in 
every branch of biological science. 

“The triple basis of the truth on which I take my stand is— 
knowledge, intuition, independence, backed and sustained by the 
practical results of more than thirty years’ experience and ardent 
solitary study of the natural. Comprised therein concurrently 
I count also experiments, extending over many years, in agri¬ 
culture, horticulture, aviculture and the like, forming at length 
one homogeneous whole, the deductions being practical, conclu¬ 
sive,well defined. Only the greatest masters appealed to me as 
teachers and I held myself unhampered by the dogmatic theories 
of the schools, with which, however, I was intimately conversant, 
none the less. 

“My principles and theories were put to the severest tests in 
every imaginable form before I felt that I dare give them to the 
world, and, working, as I do, impartially in the varied fields of 
science, wherever life affords new features for research, experi¬ 
ments were made with vegetables of nigh 600 kinds, with poultry 
to the full extent of 15,000 birds,—all made to finally demon- 


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strate beyond the shadow of doubt, the absolute truth of my de¬ 
ductions. 

“The majority of scholars proceed from false premises to a 
false hypothesis, resulting in a false criterion by which they 
judge all things sublunary, in a manner extremely hypercritical. 

“The issues of their scholastic differences are, for the most 
part, so paltry that they whose aim is real reform are com¬ 
pelled to work independently if they hope to achieve anything 
of genuine benefit to the human race. 

“This explains the feeling of enmity evinced by the scholastic 
class towards every effort of true genius. 

“You will readily understand, therefore, how futile must 
seem all effort, how discouraging the task of those who en¬ 
deavour to lead biology out of the hopeless labyrinth into which 
fallacious theories have misguided it;—hopeless, at least, so long 
as the schools are content to tolerate the attitude of the lecturers 
of the old dogmatic school and to constitute them the inspired 
guardians of scientific truth, vested with plenary powers to pro¬ 
nounce judgment upon all wanderers from the conventional rut. 

“Scholars as frank as Prof. Suess, the geologist of Vienna, 
are few and far between. He had the courage to conclude the 
lectures with this startling declaration: Geology, as it has been 
taught, is false; but you, my auditors, will live to see the 
time when the events that have taken place on earth will receive 
their proper interpretation. 

“Nine years (since 1909) have elapsed since I made my dis¬ 
coveries of 'The Law of the Determination of Sex at Will/— 
‘The Law of Latent Reserve Energy/ and ‘The Law of the 
Transmission of Characteristics to the Opposite Sex/—These 
were printed and copyrighted, and five hundred copies were sent 
to the members of the American Association for the Advance¬ 
ment of Science, and also to the executive offices of all State 
medical societies. 

“Did you notice any reference to these in any scientific publi¬ 
cation ?— 

“I did not. And the reason is apparent. 

“By various considerations their hands are tied. 


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“During the last thirty years I developed my “Dechmanna” 
based on the law of the ‘Minimum’ and the law of ‘Chemotaxis,’ 
and it has proved to be the most beneficial method for creating 
bactericide blood in the human system since the time of Hippo¬ 
crates. 

“By the law of the ‘Minimum,’ as given by Justus von Liebig, 
one of the greatest chemists the world has ever known, we under¬ 
stand, that if the minutest ingredient is missing in our nourish¬ 
ment, our blood-cells must gradually decline, and the result will 
be disease. The chain is no stronger than its weakest link. At 
present the physiological chemist knows that sixteen organic 
mineral constituents form a blood-cell, and if the blood-cell is 
to be a healthy one, these sixteen ingredients must be present in 
proper proportions and combinations. Otherwise, so-called dys- 
aemia (disarrangement in the bloodcells) will supervene. It is 
unhappily true that we are not taught this in the established uni¬ 
versities of to-day; but the time must soon come 
when a knowledge of the essential principles of my 
method will enable those who so desire, to grasp the truth. 

“The fundamental principle of what we have been discussing 
is ‘Nutritive/ not healing, agents. 

“No prescriptions are required, only the re-establishment in 
the blood of those constituents which are lacking. 

“Upon the basis of a careful diagnosis, the necessary nutri¬ 
tive salts or cell-foods, carefully compounded in accordance with 
the law of chemotaxis must be administered. This law discovered 
by Engelmann, requires that these cell-foods must be admin¬ 
istered in digestible and assimilable forms so that the cells will 
be attracted by the chemical reaction, which may be of a posi¬ 
tive or a negative character. 

“This being so, we can easily build up the tissues, of which 
there are twelve principal ones, by studying their chemical com¬ 
positions and supplying to the system that which is necessary, 
in the form of food. The cell will take care of the rest. Each 
tissue has its specific cell-system, and each cell will be attracted 
only by those ingredients which are needed for the mother tissue. 

“To point the moral with regard to my discoveries, let me cite 


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an actual incident that occurred in the life of one of the great 
masters:— 

“Professor Werner of Leipzig, the founder of geology, was 
a man pre-occupied with the consideration of maintaining his 
reputation as ‘an authority’ rather than with the despair of dif¬ 
fusing knowledge. He obtained a promise from his scholar 
Leopold von Buch, that the latter should not publish his con¬ 
vincing basalt-theory (in opposition to Werner’s theory), until 
after Werner’s death. His reason for demanding this sacrifice 
was that he could not bear to forfeit his ‘reputation.’ Leopold 
von Buch gave the promise and kept his word. (See Hensel’s 
Life, page 74). 

“How long did Galton’s theory, or the theoretic laws ad¬ 
vanced concerning atavism and ancestral heredity, form the basis 
of the entire field of biology?—Even today there are as many 
who worship at his shrine, though Galton is dead and scholars 
such as Johannsen, Bateson and others, myself included, have 
proved his ideas untenable. 

“Concerning my own criticism of Galton’s Laws, I may men¬ 
tion that in my study of the great teaching of. the “Hereditary 
Transmission of Genius and Character,’ I was constrained to 
follow other courses than those suggested by Galton, and for 
this reason: He asserted that the first-born children are al¬ 
ways the ‘most inferior in mental capacity,’ and cites the names 
of those men to whom his theory applied. I could not agree 
with him in this, since it was opposed to my study and exper¬ 
ience and, morever, incidentally, was disproved by my own family 
history. I cannot agree with Galton’s theories,—but I am in a 
position to prove, scientifically and practically, under what con¬ 
ditions the first-born and under what the last-born will be the 
one to manifest genial characteristics. However, this is a sub¬ 
ject which must be reserved for another occasion. 

“With the discovery of the erroneous nature of Galton’s 
Laws, the entire colossal structure of so-called ‘biometry’ (up¬ 
held, as its chief exponents, by Pearson and Weldon), which has 
for so many years acted as a check upon the progress of the en¬ 
tire world of scholars, crumbles to the dust. 


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“The discovery of this grave error ranks in importance with 
Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood and Galileo’s 
and Kepler’s discoveries of the movements of the earth. We 
know what happened to these latter great geniuses for their in- 
fringment upon the sacred conventional falsities of their day. 
Today we are in a similiar position, except that geniuses are no 
longer crucified or burned at the stake. Instead, in this more 
cultured age, every endeavor is made to stifle and disarm them, 
chiefly, by ignoring them completely or misrepresenting them in 
the public prints. 

“Were it not for the overwhelming proofs furnished by the 
publication of the ‘Mendelian Laws’ it would be a long time be¬ 
fore the truth on the subject of biometry would have become 
known. Even these ‘Mendelian Laws’ were suppressed since the 
year 1863, and it was then only by accident that they were 
found among Prof. Naegeli’s papers and published in 1900 by 
the Professors Correns, Tschermak and others. 

“Ranging from one extreme to another, the world of scholars 
eagerly seized upon this proof of the laws of Hereditary Trans¬ 
mission and plausibly claims to have also discovered the solu¬ 
tion of the problem of the ‘Determination of Sex at Will.’—Still 
not a word of acknowledgment is vouchsafed to me regarding my 
discovery of the true laws, the result of half a lifetime’s research, 
of which they were fully advised, but of which, so far, no overt 
notice has been directly taken, and if any at all, it lies in the 
significant fact that, gradually and point by point, the facts of 
my discovery are, apparently, being brought out in a manner to 
secure the kudos to the schools instead of to the one to whom it 
is due,—who is not a member of the caste. 

“I have given no promise to withhold my knowledge, nor have 
I desired to do so (as the official announcement of my discov¬ 
eries proves) and they delay in making the result of my investiga¬ 
tions at an earlier stage, was necessary to secure ample verifica¬ 
tion and positive certainty; moreover, monetary considerations 
constituted a grave impediment. But if, in the course of this 
interview, my viewpoint over the scientific outlook has seemed 
to savour of acerbity, let me assure you that it is due to no per- 


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sonal grievances or enmities, but merely betrays that resentment 
that we all must feel against any who deliberately pervert the 
sources of knowledge and hold back from humanity the salva¬ 
tion of enlightenment. 

“We owe it to ourselves to know how and of what our bodies 
are constructed; and this is a study which should take precedence 
of all others and should be conducted by the light and aid of two 
great powers:—the power of observation and the power of log¬ 
ical deduction. 

“For several centuries past, charlatans and professional de¬ 
generates have traded upon the ignorance and superstition of the 
people and a huge and lucrative business has been, and still is, 
the result, under the aegis of our trained and cherished ‘superior' 
stupidity. 

“The publication of my teachings, which you are taking into 
your able hands, must appeal, I think, to all who possess the 
faculty of reason, together with sufficient courage to formulate 
their own ideas of life. I speak, of course, to those who have 
reached the hour of enlightenment,—who are seeking for the 
knowledge which those to whom we have a right to look for it, 
have ever studiously withheld, the knowledge of the latest power 
of man's attribute of Thinking, —who would give their thoughts 
expression in the Doing of great things, in ways beneficial to 
the lives of men. For as Berton Braley sings: 

“ ‘Back of the beating hammer 

By which the steel is wrought, 

Back of the workshop's clamour, 

The Seeker may find the Thought. 

The thought that is ever master 
Of Iron and steam and steel, 

That rises above disaster 

And tramples it under heel! 

The Drudge may fret and tinker 
Or labour with dusty blows, 

But back of him stands the Thinker, 

The clear-eyed man who Knows.' 


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All knowledge is cumulative through the upward ages. 
The element of originality in man’s achievements ‘is like unto 
leaven, which a man took, and hid in three measures of meal, 
till the whole was leavened,’—the meal representing the propor¬ 
tion of the world-knowledge upon which genius improves. 
The thoughts that humanity has never thought before, come 
rarely to our ken. But, in these days of ease and apathy, that 
man is nature-marked for fame and dubbed a ‘genius,’ whose 
energy ‘endureth to the end,’—who confidently carries out his 
bright idea—with verve and elan or with calm persistency—up to 
the portals of acceptancy and wrests from the guardian pedants 
there, a grudging, churlish, forced acknowledgment. But dignity 
may demand a worthier way; and I, for one, with Emerson, 
would rather say, ‘let me come into port grandly—or sail with 
God the seas.’ These men I reckon heroes, who for humanity’s 
sake withstand, for truth, the sneers and buffets of a hostile 
world of ignorance, remaining steadfast, fighting to the death. 
That is true patriotism,—that the highest rendering of the heroic 
phrase ‘pro patria mori’ (to die for one’s country). 

“No great man in history’s varied page but has at sometime 
had good reason to conclude that genius is the unforgiven sin 
humanity most abhors—the thing most trying to the schools’ 
weak equipose,—and that the most desired thing on earth is 
mediocrity. Books might be quoted by the score which prove the 
same ad nauseam; thus, we must conclude the world prefers 
to have it so. 

“But now, surrounded as we are by critics, hypercritical, I 
would here disclaim all egotistic thought that may, perhaps, be 
charged to me, in thus discussing my career. 

“Self-conscious of a higher light within, which men call 
genius, a man must be,—or he could not surprise the hoary old- 
school fallacies. But this self-consciousness, again, is never 
‘reckoned unto him for righteousness.’ The case has been 
thrashed out by many an abler pen than mine without appreciable 
effect upon the ‘world of wisdom.’ I merely quote, therefor, the 
words of Reibmayr which impress me most:— 


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‘“The evidence of the self-consciousness of genius upon its 
own destiny, cannot be valued too highly. This self-conscious¬ 
ness is a talisman, as it were , which by its mysterious operations 
enables genius not only to withstand successfully all the dangers 
of the combat with the hatred and envy of talent, but, under the 
most adverse exterior circumstances, never to doubt the ultimate 
victory of its ideas. In this self-consciousness nature has given 
genius an antitoxin (the only one I personally believe in) against 
every poisonous attack of its malicious enemies, so that it is made 
invulnerable, like Siegfried through the dragon's blood. Not 
only does genius acquire an unbounded confidence in the justice 
of the future, but also the fearlessness necessary to meet great 
dangers. Even in the face of death, as in the case of Giordano 
Bruno and many others , genius is enabled, in the true sense of 
the word, to remain victorious over the most adverse destiny.' 

" ‘Whosoe'er with truth is armed 
Ne'er through slander can be harmed.’ 

“In the last thirty years I have carried my proven intuitions 
into marvelous effect by advising the so-called hopeless cases of 
Tuberculosis, especially in predisposed children, Diabetes, 
Bright’s disease, Arteriosclerosis, Neurasthenia, and such kindred 
ills, the results of which proved uniformly favourable. 

“There is more in intuition than the wisest of us guess;— 
there is a sympathy, innate in some, which leads in nature’s ways. 
—From my youth up, I am accustomed to surround myself with 
many humble friends from nature’s great menagerie of beast and 
insect, bird and tree, studying their various proclivities and fos¬ 
tering in them what was best—but loving most the beautiful. 

ut Nature is loved by what is best in us.' 

“So eager was my thirst to learn the knowledge of great 
minds that nothing was beyond my reach—no works too costly, no 
experiment too abstruse to stay the effort that might secure one 
forward step upon this lofty plane; whilst as for wisdom to fo¬ 
cus and assimilate the same in due alignment and perspective,— 


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I can only say that, with the normal mind’s intelligence and ex¬ 
ercise, wisdom develops with the advancing years. If steady ap¬ 
plication counts at all, truly I have earned my share. To aim 
high is to deserve success.—My aim was, first and last, the bene¬ 
fit of all humanity. Hard honest work, persistent throughout all 
adversity, loyal to duty’s call and nature’s governance, are the 
conditions that secure success. To these I have endeavored to 
be true.—Success, theoretical, is mine. But when success shall 
savour of acknowledgment or culminate in fame depends on the 
intelligence of others and thus remains a riddle hard to read, a 
consummation I may never see perchance,—a sequel which must 
still lie hid in the lap of the immortal gods until the fulness of 
time be come; for as the immortal Emerson has said: 

. “'Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed 

through which the Creator passed! 

‘‘Meanwhile, as conscious guardian of a living truth, I stand 
at the post of duty, in single-minded certainty, my aim always 
in view; and if alone, still steadfast yet, my face turned to the 
weakening foe, expectant, in the forefront of the fray between 
the things archaic and the scientific dawn. That more was not 
achieved, with earlier results, is due to circumstances and many 
obstacles along the arduous way. 

“Posterity shall judge me, possibly with kindness, in the days 
to come, recalling that such a fight was made and such a stand 
maintained, not at a period of quiet and repose, but when con¬ 
tending factions rose most high,—a time of keenest controversy, 
an age of fetishes, the most perverse anachronism medical his¬ 
tory records, when orthodox bacteriology ran riot in an inter¬ 
mittent orgie of heresies and greed, a prey to subsidized charlat¬ 
anry of many varied creeds,—strange human wolves, armed with 
the weapon of cupidity who entered the law-protected fold of 
medical mediocrity and slew the dying with a surer death, by 
various hypothesis that clustered round a prevalant disease. The 
whole world paid the toll! 

“Had but my therapy been accepted then, how many a wasted 
life had been preserved, how many a bitter tear been saved to 
‘suffering sad humanity.’ 


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“Such then is the subject of my quest, and such the profession 
of my faith,—it’s summing up can best be made in these few 
lines before me, from the wisdom of the great Confucius, which 
convey the secret aspirations of my soul in better words than 
mine:— 

“ ‘The higest study of all is that which teaches us to develop 
those principles of purity and perfect virtue, which Heaven be¬ 
stowed upon us at our birth, in order that we may acquire the 
power of influencing for good those amongst whom we are placed, 
by our precepts and example; a study without an aid—for our 
labours cease only when we have become perfect—an unattain¬ 
able goal, but one that we must not the less set before us from 
the very first. It is true that we shall not be able to reach it, but 
in our struggle towards it, we shall strengthen our characters and 
give stability to our ideas, so that whilst ever advancing calmly in 
the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the 
facilities with which we have been gifted to the best possible ac¬ 
count V 

“Philosophy teaches that knowledge is like Love—a veritable 
truth in contradiction,—we only can preserve it by giving it away. 

“Such knowledge as I have, I give it freely to humanity. 

“My aim, as I have said, is the eventual perfection of the 
race. That aim, Utopian distant, though it may appear, will 
come to pass some day, and meanwhile it is shared by other 
minds than mine. 

“Elbert, the Beautiful, speaking of Emerson, has somewhere 
said: 

‘Emerson says , “I have not yet seen a man”* 

“That is to say, he had never seen a man as excellent as the 
man he could imagine. And the thought the man whom one 
could create in imagination would some day become an actual, 
living reality. 

“Before the act comes the thought ; — before the build¬ 
ing we draw the plans. This is true of all our activities,—we 
have the feeling, the desire, the idea, the thought, — and 
after this comes the deed. So Deity has the desire for the per¬ 
fect man, and the universe is working toward that achievement.” 

The Master paused,—then rising, in a closing phrase he said: 


34 


“‘Keep in your heart a shrine to the ideal, and upon this 
altar let the fire never die.’ 

The one who blesses—who makes the world better—is the 
true priest.’ 

“These also are the words of Elbert Hubbard, of sad, but 
happy memory.—Generous, as all great souls, he gave them to 
the world,—and I, as freely, have adopted them. 

“The hour is late.—Good night.” 

With this seemingly abrupt conclusion, characteristic of the 
man,— “suaviter in modo, fortiter in re” (gentle in manner and 
strong in deeds),—the Master passed, in pensive mood, out into 
the starry stillness of the night; saddened, it seemed to me, with 
memories of the past,—memories which reminded him, too for¬ 
cibly perhaps, of the long struggle of the upward trend—the scien¬ 
tifically certain, far off quest of a world-wide, free philanthropy; 
—thinking maybe, of the many who have profited by his handi¬ 
work yet never stayed to thank the giver. 

The greatest souls are, still, stung by ingratitude. 

Hear Shakespeare thus:— 

“Blow, blow, thou winter wind! 

Thou art not so unkind 
As man’s ingratitude.” 

And it may be the Master has been sore tried in this regard 
and finds it hard, as Pope has poetized:— 

“To bear unmov’d the wrongs of base mankind, 

The last and hardest conquest of the mind.” 

However that be, it distresses me to think the interview, so 
useful and instructive, should have caused him pain. 

But now I hear his footfall down the terraces, descending to 
his home beside the lake,—a home made comfortable and cosy 
through the unceasing efforts of his faithful wife, the one we 
all so gladly hail as “Mother;”—and it is time that I, too, said 
good night, and retired to my pine-protected cottage hermitage. 


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REGENERATION OF THE RACE THROUGH THE 
TEACHINGS OF BIOLOGY, EUGENICS, AND THEIR 
LAWS, AIDED BY PHYSIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY :* 

(From Chapter X “Dare to be Healthy.”) 
from 

— Concepcion’s Diary. — 


“The body is one, and hath many members , and all 
the members of that one body, being many, are one body 
. . . and whether one member suffer, all the mem¬ 

bers suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the 
members rejoice with it.” 

St. Paul to the Corinthians, I. (XII 12x26). 



YSAEMIA or Impure Blood is the source of disorder 
in all constitutional diseases.” So spoke the Master. 

“Believe it who will, that, in a nutshell, is ‘the 
burden of my song’—the Alpha and Omega of my 


teaching. 

“ ‘You are seeking truth?’ quoth Adalbert von Chamisso, one 
of Germany’s great lyric poets. —‘Remember that the world clings 
more firmly to superstition than to faith’ —or, to borrow expres¬ 
sion from an equally inspired source—remember that humanity 
usually elects to favour what Shakespeare terms ‘The seeming 
truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest 


(*Part of this article was copyrighted 1902, but the science 
of the system practiced and preached since 1890 in this country 
by Dr. Louis Dechmann.) 


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“Courageous, then, must be the knight who sets his lance in 
rest to tilt against the windmills of the world. 

“Nevertheless, although the truth is still banned by common 
consent, or tacit connivance,—whichever term you prefer,—as 
“heterodox,” in view of the cataclasm which must naturally en¬ 
sue, with deadly financial results to the innocents of orthodoxy, 
so soon as the long-trusted barriers of plausible and pretentious 
mystery and importance shall be swept away by the rising tide of 
popular indignation, when the masses become educated to dis¬ 
criminate between truth and falsehood and thus shall come into 
their own way. 

“Still, I say, there are, and have been all along the way, em¬ 
inent medical men of high intelligence, who, unlike the drones 
of the medical hive, have dared to think for themselves and have 
even dared to speak their thoughts. 

“Thus Sir William W. Gull, for instance, Physician to her 
late Majesty Queen Victoria, ‘ Having passed the period of the 
goldheaded cane and horsehair wig, we dare hope to have also 
passed the days of pompous emptiness ; and furthermore, we can 
hope that nothing will be considered unworthy the attention of 
physicians which contributes to the saving of 
life.’ 

“Again, an authority of the first rank, Prof. Oesterlin, says 
in his noted work on the Materia Medica:— 

“ ‘The studious physician of our century will hardly expect 
to accomplish by force, through some strange drug or other, that 
which only nature can bring about when assisted by all the ra¬ 
tional accessories of hygiene and dietetics .’ 

“ ‘ N a t u r e alone can furnish much de¬ 
sired and beneficient means, which the 
science of medicine never has afforded and 
never can.* 

“As we survey the civilization of our age and its medical 
science, we see, on the one hand, the crude superstitions of the 
masses, the subtler superstitions of the educated classes; gross 
materialism, bewildering Darwinism, pessimism, and degenerate 
political economy; on the other hand, unmitigated quackery and 


37 


cupidity, with its weight of oppression on humanity,—every¬ 
where confusion instead of harmony. 

“Surely the law of cause and effect will produce a reaction 
some day, against our present degenerate system of medical 
science and the method of natural healing will prevail. 

“How else is a general catastrophy to be averted? 

“The process of natural healing is the art of curing diseases 
by natural methods. 

“As natural remedies only those may be included which stand 
as vital conditions in constant relation to the organism. 

“Among these are no poisons or chemical preparations, such 
as were promulgated by Paracelsus and the medicasters; for these 
are abnormal elements to the body, and call forth its reactionary 
powers, and so, being useless, they are eliminated, or, after hav¬ 
ing served their purpose, to suppress one symptom 
or another, they become imbedded in the tissues, there causing 
various forms of medicinal disease. 

“Do we not produce blood poisons enough by our irrational 
modes of living? The human body is a microcosm, a world in 
miniature—and as such, exists in constant interchange with uni¬ 
versal nature. 

“A definite relationship exists between it and the solid, fluid 
and gaseous elements. 

“Solid food, water and air, elements of the universe, must 
become elements of our bodies, if relations with the outer world 
are to be maintained. 

“There must be a constant interchange of matter, and this 
trans-elementation is the cause of life, of health, and of disease; 
therefore we must first of all see that the conditions of this tissue 
metamorphosis are uninterrupted. 

“Food, air, water, light, exercise, must be so furnished that 
the nutrition and metamorphosis of tissue goes on. 

“Skin, lungs, kidneys, intestines, must always be in condition 
to eliminate the abnormal products of decomposition. 

“If then disease be a deranged metamorphosis of tissue, it is 
self-evident that the disease is not confined to one organ alone, 
but that the whole body is diseased. 

“In the treatment we must therefore act upon the whole body. 


38 


“The modern school of medicine looks upon the bacillus as 
the sole cause of disease. 

“The cause, however, is not the bacillus, but rather the 
impure blood which prepares a fertile soil for the development 
of those destructive germs. 

“He who lives strictly in accordance with the rules of hygiene 
need not fear the bacillus, for man is not born sick; he creates 
sickness for himself by his irrational mode of living. 

“What does the world profit by bacteriological institutions 
if the people continue to live in the old sins against health and 
hygiene ? 

“Man may be born with a predisposition to disease, but not 
with disease itself. 

“Our health depends entirely upon the conditions of our life. 

“In cases of predisposition to disease, therefore, as well as 
in disease itself, according to the principles of hygiene, we must 
employ only the hygienic and dietetic methods of treatment. 

“Is the medical science of the day, then, totally incompetent? 
You may well ask.—Have the patient studies and research of 
nearly two thousand four hundred years, since the days of Hip¬ 
pocrates, been all in vain? 

“The reply lies ready to your hand, from the lips of one of 
the brightest scientific spirits that ever illumined this dull earth 
of ours with knowledge and sincerity. 

“In Goethe’s Faust the following lines are found,—lines which 
sad memory brings back to the minds of many an unfortunate 
who, according to the dictates of the medical science of today, is 
pronounced incurable,—a sufferer from one or other of the so- 
called chronic diseases and in dire need of both physical and 
spiritual support. 

“ 7 have, alas, philosophy, 

Medicine , jurisprudence too , 

And, to my cost, theology 

With ardent labour studied through ; 

And here I stand with all my lore, 

Poor fool, no wiser than before” 


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“Like Faust, such sufferers study day and night the opinions 
of learned doctors and follow their prescriptions with ardent 
zeal. The more they study, the more doctors they consult, the 
more rapidly does strength fail them, until at length they realize 
that, in spite of all their lore, they are only ‘poor fools, no wiser 
than before/ 

“For more than two thousand years it has been as it is to a 
great extent today; the physician prescribed to the best of his 
knowledge, medicines compounded according to certain rules 
taught in the schools. 

“Here we have at once the fatal mistake. 

“Instead of studying nature and the laws of nature, instead 
of using natural means to heal disease, they administer deadly 
poisons to suffering humanity, poisons, which we doubt not may 
be able to allay pain or to temporarily suppress—the symptoms 
or effect of disease; but they will never remove the cause, 
which alone may rightly be called healing. 

“The drugs prescribed by thousands of physicians today, 
with but a casual acquaintance with their action, are bound by 
their nature to produce evils far worse than the disease. 

“To cite an instance:— 

“Physicians prescribe creosote in cases of consumption to 
stop the expectoration of blood. 

“Creosote will do this, and may suppress the cough, as well 
as accompanying pain; but it will never heal consumption nor 
destroy or remove the cause of this deadliest of diseases. 

“On the contrary, it inevitably produces laryngeal phthisis 
after a very short time.—It destroys the head of the windpipe 
and the patient dies in consequence of the destruction of one of 
the most important organs of the body. 

“In most instances the physician is either unaware or un¬ 
troubled by these facts.—He follows those old rules of healing, 
laid down by human ‘science/ not by nature. 

“His courage is called ‘audacity’ by those who have not lost 
all feeling for humanity. 

“Meanwhile, those who consider medical science from simply 
a business standpoint only, are very quick to pronounce judgment 


40 


upon any natural treatment of disease and to condemn the most 
successful natural physicians as swindlers. 

"‘In order to be competent to decide upon a correct course 
of treatment for this disease the physician must possess a 
thorough chemical knowledge of all the fundamental sub¬ 
stances of which the human organism is constructed. With 
the patient therefore rests the responsibility of choosing his 
physician, since no physician can be of any assistance who 
cannot define what substances are deficient in the blood, and 
does not possess the requisite chemical sagacity to supply 
this deficiency by adequate dietetic directions. 

“In my nutrition cell-food therapy for constitutional 
diseases, I have followed consistently the suggestions gathered 
from the words of Privy Councillor Prof. Schweninger of Ber¬ 
lin, who once gave the following instructions in one of his medical 
colloquies: ‘In order to understand a sickness or disease and to 
undertake to thoroughly cure the same, it is first of all necessary 
to unfold before one’s mental vision the ways and means of its 
formation, and by degrees to trace its origin, before one is en¬ 
abled to prepare therapeutic measures comformable to the in¬ 
dividual stages of the same.’ 

“In this sense I have strenuously tried to get at the bottom 
of the inception of constitutional diseases, but the entire medical 
literature did not advance me further than to pathological ana¬ 
tomy, which informs us that the original cause of the disease is 
the change in the form of the cellular elements of different 
digestive organs, in the explanation of which the customary 
technical terms are used, such as atrophy, degeneration, meta¬ 
morphosis, etc. But I reasoned to myself, this surely cannot be 
the origin. 

“The cause for the visible changing of the cellules must be 
sought in the conditional interstitial substances which cause the 
invisible changes or shiftings of the cellular forms, and which 
are scientifically termed ‘changed nutritional con¬ 
ditions.’ 

“With the aid of physiological chemistry I was success¬ 
ful in finding the path to the playgrounds of those mysterious 
occurrences of life. 


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“And this was my course of reasoning:—As the cellules, 
which are the smallest individual elements of the human system, 
are only products of the blood, and for their composition re¬ 
quire the different chemical substances in alternating quantities, 
it is obviously necessary to fathom what those chemical elements 
of the cellulues may be, what form they take in their mutual re¬ 
lation to the separate parts of the body, and in what way they 
enter the organism. 

“In this way I obtained a clear insight into the actions of the 
so-called mineral material in the organism, and it gradually 
became clear to me that everything is dependent upon the 
introduction of the proper sanguifying or nutritive salts (some 
call them vitalines) into the blood. 

“On this basis I founded the so-called 'organic nutritive 
cell-food therapy’ (called Dech-Manna Therapy). 

“The point may be raised that the elements of the food we 
eat or drink are heterogeneous and that the mineral matter in 
them is naturally and casually acquired, according to the prop¬ 
erties of the soil they grow in. This is the general opinion, but 
not the fact. Our vegetables, grain, meat and milk contain too 
much phosphoric acid and sal ammoniac, and this is due to the 
use of artificial and animal fertilizers, while the sulphurics are 
very often entirely missing. 

“Von Liebig says:—'When we consider that the sugar refin¬ 
eries of Waghausel have an annual output in the market of 600,- 
000 lbs. of potassic salt, which is taken from the soil by the tur¬ 
nips of the Baden fields without being replaced, and that there 
is cultivated in North Germany from year to year, with the as¬ 
sistance of guano, an immense amount of potatoes solely for the 
manufacture of spirits, and that these potato fields are conse¬ 
quently robbed of the essential ingredients which potatoes should 
contain, and as these elements are only partially replaced by the 
insufficient component parts of the guano, we cannot be in doubt 
as to the condition of these fields. The ground may be ever so 
rich in ingredients, but it is exhaustible. The analysis of our 
blood indicates that, in order to remain well i t must contain 
twice as many sulphuric as phosphoric salts. 

“We talk glibly about a natural mode of living, a mild diet; 


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but where in our civilized countries can we find food that really 
serves healthy sanguification? And why do we always express 
the wish to heal naturally and not also to nourish naturally? 
—The latter is, to say the least of it, just as important as the 
former. But if both were practiced conjointly, a beneficial ob¬ 
ject might be more quickly and surely gained. 

“It is true, we are taught to eat more vegetables than meat, 
that our bread lacks the chief nourishing qualities, etc., but we 
have never been informed as to the substances that are harmful 
or beneficial to us. 

“Why is it then that the science of the sanative power of 
nature, as well as medical science, is still in doubt in regard to 
the relation that must absolutely exist between the separate com¬ 
ponent parts of our nourishment in order to obtain normal healthy 
sanguification? 

“The reason is that the application of a real chemistry of 
life has never been comprehended until now. 

“According to my judgment it is von Liebig who shows us 
the path we are to take to the field of enquiry most important of 
all; for without a sound body all the coveted acquisitions of mod¬ 
ern times are worthless to us. 

“The solution of the question how to prevent the degenera¬ 
tion of mankind would be a simple and natural one, if history 
had not taught us that as often as a new truth appears ‘the very 
oxen butt their horns against it.’ They cannot help this, the 
‘disposition’ is natural; for when Pythagoras had found the 
Master of Arts, Matheseos, he was so overjoyed that he sacri¬ 
ficed one hundred oxen to the gods, and ever since that time 
oxen are attacked with an hereditary fright whenever a new 
truth appears,—the human oxen especially. 

“Of what use, for instance, are the Roentgen X-rays for 
diseases of the nerves when there is a generally diseased condi¬ 
tion of the blood, which, as you now know, is also the primary 
cause of lung, liver, stomach and kidney troubles, cancer, scro¬ 
fula, rheumatism, gout, obesity, diabetes, and the rest? 

“In such cases chemistry is necessary in order to ascertain 
what ingredients are missing in the blood; they cannot be de¬ 
tected microscopically. 


43 


“What blunders are continually committed in the treatment of 
nerve diseases! No one considers the physiological law that 
no parts of the nerves can perform their functions lastingly 
and naturally unless they are continually supplied with blood 
filled with oxygen; and for this purpose iron is most neces¬ 
sary. 

“Physicians of the old school do prescribe iron plentifully, 
but in inorganic form; and because it is not organized it is in¬ 
digestible and is excreted. That is why the treatment of the dis¬ 
eases of the nerves, which are so general and widespread, has 
been so unsuccessful. 

“It is not known that organized ammonium phosphate (Leci¬ 
thin), which is the mineral foundation of the Neurogen I pre¬ 
scribe, will regenerate the nervecells if consumed in the proper 
proportions and not taken to excess. It is as little known also 
that if a person with diseased lungs is placed where he will re¬ 
ceive an ample quantity of pure air, that is, oxygen, and given 
four quarts of milk daily, he will nevertheless perish most 
wretchedly if his food does not contain iron, lime and sulphur in 
sufficient quantities. 

“These simple physiological laws have been forgotten, and we 
have been given instead the teachings of the school of bacteriology 
with its pitiful consequences, which have brought great sorrow 
to so many homes. 

“The statements of many patients who have visited the best 
physical culture and natural healing establishments, so-called, 
both in Europe and in this country, serve to show that their suc¬ 
cess has been one-sided; that is, they have dissuaded from the 
wrong albumen theory, and their state of health has consequently 
been improved. But practically they have failed; for com¬ 
plete and final recovery—that is, full and correct nutrition and 
strengthening of the nerves, has not been accomplished. It is 
that certain essential constituents have been missing! These 
vital constituents my organic nutritive cell-food therapy is de¬ 
signed to supply. 

“What is lacking in the field of practical science, as author¬ 
itatively accepted by the unprogressive faculty of today, is an ab¬ 
sence of chemical knowledge, especially on the part of the phy- 


44 


sician and the naturalist; and as even the so-called scientific 
farmer is woefully ignorant on matters of agricultural chemistry, 
the logical consequence is that in all civilized countries great mis¬ 
takes have been unconsciously made, detrimental to the health 
of mankind—in fact, I may say, both to man and beast. 

‘'Where are the most necessary and important mineral 
substances to be found in nature? 

“It is an established fact that our fields, on which our nutri¬ 
tive salts sometimes called vitalines are grown, were originally 
formed from decayed primitive rocks, and this primitive stone 
matter is composed of the same mineral substances that are found 
in normal blood. Therefore, our physical welfare and capacity 
is dependent upon the condition of our fields. We must al¬ 
ways bear this in mind—the old truism—that, 

‘As a man eats, he is/ 

“We are thus the products of the fields. Wrongfully fertil¬ 
ized, our fields must produce sickly vegetation, and this will in 
turn produce a sickly race and breed disease in cattle. 

“Primitive rock consists of granite, porphyry, gneiss and 
basalt, which are still found upon the earth in immense quantities, 
and in the same condition as thousands of years ago. 

“As a matter of fact both Liebig and Hensel, distinctly, evolv¬ 
ed proposals to pulverize rock of this kind and use this dust as 
compost to assist the fields in a natural way, and thus return to 
them their former producing power, which would enable plants, 
animals and man to regain those substances which are so indis¬ 
pensable to good sanguification and general growth. 

“The agricultural experiments that have been performed with 
this stone dust fully confirm this assumption. 

“Did any representative ever present a bill to the Legislature 
with the object of lessening the difficulties of agriculture by 
finding a cheaper method of fertilization for our fields? Never! 
One class forever seeks to enrich itself at the expense of another. 
One of the most important tasks of today is to point out to the 
farmer new ways and means of creating new growth. This would 
be a benefit to us all This would be the true path to victory. 

“If these facts have been proven, why are the fields not being 


45 


manured with this stone dust? I imagine I can hear you ex¬ 
claim. 

“This question may be answered by another. Why does not 
the natural or hygienic dieting method find general application 
in cases of sickness, since its successes are so much greater than 
those achieved by medical science? 

“To this vital question upon which so much of human life 
and happiness depends, the weak and degrading answer must 
suffice to the effect that the foundation of public respect for the 
sciences would be shaken, and many wise theories would have to 
be robbed of their imaginary virtues before humanity’s best birth¬ 
right of healthy blood,—kind nature’s free gift to all,—could be 
freely secured, when men would be enabled to cure themselves 
naturally from disease, and with naturally fertilized fields to 
gather from the bounteous earth in natural nutritive vegetation 
the just guerdon of their toil. 

“A physician to whom I explained, one day, my nutrition 
theories, listened to me for fifteen minutes and then said, ‘Well, 
and so you want to create healthy blood in this way?’ ‘Yes, 
surely,’ I answered. ‘We have no use for that,’ he callously ex- 
c’aimed, ‘there would be no business in that.’ 

“Hence, Mankind must degenerate and disease of all 
kinds ride rampant through the land, rather than upset the 
firmly rooted fallacies of the past or foil the ghoul-like greed 
of a certain class of conscienceless practitioners. 

“To the former of these two classes I would address the 
terse Latin satire: 

‘Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius 
Qui, nisi quod ipse fecit, nihil rectum putaf 

( Terentius) 

‘ Who is there so unreasoning as he, that learned drone, 

Who reckons nothing perfect save what he himself hath known * 

(M. B.) 

To the latter I have naught to say—save this: 

‘May their shadow never increase 
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“You have led me far afield, my children,” said the Master, 
consulting his watch with surprise, “but I will terminate this im¬ 
promptu dissertation with this assurance to you: We can 
cure disease only by removing its cause. Good night.’’ And 
so the Master passed upon his way. First warming to his sub¬ 
ject, then carried away by it, he had forgotten everything except 
his art, whilst we too intensely interested, were glad to rest and 
think!-think!!-think!!! 


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